Fad diets come and go, but The Atkins Diet-- a high-protein, low-carbohydrate weight-loss plan --seems never to go away, no matter how many medical professionals denounce it. "Low-carb diets have ...

are allowed on low-carbohydrate diets like the Atkins diet, they can raise cholesterol levels. Read the original article on Health Digest.

Doctors have blamed the Atkins diet for a worrying increase in the problem of constipation - a key factor in causing bowel cancer. Specialists claim that rising sales of laxatives and other ...

Dr Robert Atkins - whose diet is followed by three million Britons - had a serious heart disease and was a clinically obese 18-and-a-half stone when he died, a report revealed yesterday.